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Famous William Wordsworth Quotes
“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
“Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.”
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”
“Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.”
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.”
“Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.”
“What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.”
“From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.”
“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”
“In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.”
“Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect”
“... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.”
“I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.”
“Delivered from the galling yoke of time.”
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.”
“The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.”
“The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!”
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.”
“We live by admiration, hope and love.”